A Revolution in how
Community’s Leverage Resources! Leading the Way in Key "Result Areas"
- Through the "New Lens"
of Priority Based Budgeting, communities have unveiled an entirely unique
understanding regarding the "Results of Government" that define the
very role of modern local government. The answer
to the question "why do we exist" has focused on several key
"Result" areas most relevant for our time.

This year's conference will showcase leading public and
private sector innovatorswho are inspiring an epic REVOLUTION in local government!

Redefining
how to legitimately attain economic development
and measurable local job creation through the use of incubators
and partnerships

Discover new models for achieving safer communities at lesser
cost

Explore
revenue generation strategies attainable to every local government that
have to date remained hidden

Dive into shared service models emerging to help local
government redefine service levels in key public-public and public-private
partnerships

Understand
and digest the complex role of local government in long-term
"sustainability"

Advance past "performance measurement" to reveal a
new component to priority based budgeting that includes "results
measurement" strategies

Grasp
how credit rating agencies assess municipal credit ratings and how the
transparent concepts of fiscal health and priority based budgeting can
assist in stabilizing and improving bond and credit ratings

Expose your organization to the hands-on tools attainable to
your community to fulfill the promise of reinventing government

Bring to light how to harvest the skill sets of the next
generation of emerging leaders

Immerse yourself in the implementation strategies, shared
experiences and lessons learned of the nearly 70 communities who have
successfully brought the full potential of Fiscal Health and Priority
Based Budgeting to their organizations

And
one more thing:
the CPBB Conference just wouldn't be the same without a few surprises
and unveilings!

The ICMA "Leading Practice" of Priority Based Budgeting
is fundamentally changing the way local governments are approaching
resource allocation, community partnerships, transparency in financial
management and literacy, credit rating management, and our very
understanding of the modern role of pro-active governance.

A Revolution In How Communities Leverage Resources

Building upon the excitement and enthusiasm from the CPBB 2013 "Summit of Leading Practices" Annual Conference,
we'll be delivering even more success driven initiatives from the CPBB,
our partners and your local government practitioner peers that will
provide proven strategies designed to catapult your organization into
the innovation stratosphere! REGISTER HERE!

Jon Johnson and Chris Fabian are pleased to share with you that the Center for Priority Based Budgeting officially opened its office on September 1, 2010, with its main objective being to “lead communities to Fiscal Health and Wellness.”

As most of you know, it was our desire from the very beginning of our partnership to create a not-for-profit environment that could support and sustain our work in not only providing advisory services to local governments across the country but also to find ways to continue our research efforts to better understand the fiscal conditions that are impacting local governments from coast to coast. Utilizing a business development technique found in the private sector, the Center was being “incubated” by another successful not-for-profit organization that also serves local governments. Graduating from the incubator in 2013, CPBB is now working with over 60 organizations who have implemented or are currently implementing the processes and tools of Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting.

As before, we are striving to bring the principles of Fiscal Health and Wellness to all communities by teaching, coaching and guiding them in the development and implementation of our unique, creative and proven tools and techniques. We continue to improve upon our “Fiscal Health Diagnostic Tool”, which provides a quick assessment of any organization’s fiscal health status. We also continue to develop our “Resource Allocation Tool” which provides not only a mechanism to set target budgets based on our Priority Based Budgeting approach, but also serves as a way to depict how well any organization is aligning its resources with the programs and services that the community values. Our work has expanded to now include some interesting and successful citizen engagement opportunities with the communities we are partnering with in this work.

We have included our contact information below and hope that we can continue to reach out to those of you we have worked with in the past to further our research efforts as we continually strive to enhance the Priority Based Budgeting process as well as with the concepts of Fiscal Health and Wellness. We also hope to continue the conversation with those of you who have been following our work and share with you the stories of accomplishment and success from the organizations that have implemented Priority Based Budgeting. Please drop us a line anytime – we’re always glad to hear from you. In the meantime, please update your contact information and when you have the chance, check out our blog site to find out what we’ve been doing since our last conversation with you.